The CONSUMED podcast stokes candid conversations about life and flavor with the people who put food on our plate and drinks in our glass. Join writer Jaime Lewis in seeing life through the lens of how we nourish ourselves.
Elizabeth Poett wears many hats. She is a seventh-generation cattle rancher on Rancho San Julian near Lompoc, California, a home cook, an entrepreneur...
For years, I’ve driven past the dive bar Whiskey & June in Atascadero and promised myself I’d visit someday. I hate to say it, but I’ve still never go...
Kari and Will Torres are partners in San Luis Obispo’s Farmhouse Corner Market, a restaurant and specialty grocery that has won the hearts of flavor-l...
Beda Schmidthues owns and operates Beda’s Biergarten in San Luis Obispo with his wife Helga and their children. Beda and Helga are from Duisberg and D...
Despite never having done anything like it before, Christa Pfleeger and her husband Eric bought a homestead in Huasna, east of Arroyo Grande. She is a...
By day, Carter Hiyama is a filmmaker and commercial photographer for his production company Datsu Films, and his wife Veronika Hiyama works in marketi...
Angela-Sarah North and Sadie Rogers each had a love for wild things long before they met in San Luis Obispo. Their respect for the natural world broug...
Arcenio J. López is a Mixteco native from a village in Oaxaca, Mexico. When he arrived in Oxnard, California in 2003, Arcenio worked as a farmworker i...
Michael Palmer is the owner of McConnell’s Ice Cream in Santa Barbara, along with his wife, Chef Eva Ein. They’re not the original owners though: McCo...
Jack Dyer tells me about his roots in a a family of people with a heart for service, the moment he quit his day job to start a craft brewery, and how ...